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Energy from Sun
Energy in Atmosphere
Temperature
Heat Transfer
Wind
100
Waves that transfer electric and magnetic energy through the vacum of space.
What are electromagnetic waves?
100
These six parts of the atmosphere absorb the energy that comes from the sun.
What are the ozone layer, water vapor, carbon dioxide, clouds, dust, and gases ?
100
A measure of how hot or cold an object is compared to a reference point.
What is temperature?
100
The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
Caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
200
radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma ray
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
200
In this process clouds, dust particles, and gases reflect light back into space and in all directions.
What is scattering?
200
An instrument used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
The direct transfer of thermal energy from one surface to another that is touching.
What is conduction?
200
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
300
Gas molecules scatter short wavelengths of visible light (blue and violet) more than long waves (red and orange).
Why does the daytime sky look blue?
300
The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
300
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.
What is convection?
300
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure
What is wind?
400
Radiation that is not visible but can be felt as heat.
What is infrared?
400
When Earth's surface is heated, it radiates most of this form energy back into the atmosphere heating the air.
What is infrared radiation?
400
Radiation, conduction, and convection
What are three ways heat is transferred?
400
This fluid surrounds each of us all the time.
What is air or the atmosphere?
400
A measure of cooling combining these two factors, temperature and wind speed.
What is wind-chill factor?
500
Radiation with waves that are shorter than violet light and causes sunburn. It can also cause skin cancer and eye damage.
What is ultraviolet?
500
In this process gases hold heat in the atmosphere forming a blanket around Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
The upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air.
What are convection currents?
500
The circulation of a fluid as it alternately heats up and cools down.
What are convection currents?
500
These are caused by unequal heating of Earth's surface over a large area.
What are global winds?